On 1/10/11 5:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The trust where I work has in the past saved documents at 150 dpi, I
> now need to take some of these and have them accessible from our
> website. I really need to reduce these down to 72 dpi to speed up the
> download time. I tried using GIMP but you can't save as PDF on a
> vanilla install (unless I missed something), what would people out
> there suggest I use?
>
> Thanks
> Kerry
>
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This is a fairly brutal method and others can probably come up with
something more elegant, but my approach would be
1. Create a blank document in OpenOffice with margins set at zero all
around.
2. For each page of a document saved by the trust:
a. Open the page in the GIMP
b. Scale the image to 72 dpi (I believe the default resolution at
which GIMP opens .pdf's is 254 dpi, but perhaps you could eliminate the
scaling step by changing the resolution at opening)
c. Save the page
d. Import the page into your blank document
e. Repeat a..d as many times as required, if your saved document is
multiple pages
3. Save the whole OpenOffice document as a .pdf.
Do the documents even need to be kept as .pdfs? You could open them
page-by-page in the GIMP and convert them to .jpgs, or convert them to
.jpgs, import them page-by-page into a blank OOo document and then save
it as a .pdf.
=====Andrew
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